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by mtippett | February 28, 2007 at 09:47 am
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So yesterday I get an email from my crazy younger brother. Earlier this year he went down to Burning Man with an 8 foot mechanical spider that he spent 2 years building (yeah, he's a little eccentric). In his email he tells me that the video I shot of him in his spider is now on the homepage of MSN.com.
How is this possible I wonder? I had posted the video on NowPublic months ago but certainly hadn't signed it over to MSN. How is it that they could now run pre-roll ads for Dodge Chargers in front of my video? So I do a little digging and it turns out they're serving the content off another site called 'stupidvideos.com' who apparently did their dirty work. Stupid Videos is also serving ads against my video!
Now I feel stupid for paying for Office 2007. I'll think twice about making that mistake again.
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at 10:03 on February 28th, 2007
I can't believe this....as a side, I do love the mechanical spider.
at 12:24 on February 28th, 2007
The Mondo Spider is Fabulous!
I guess MSN just couldn't resist the story. Kinda makes you wonder though how many other items on their site have been illicitly picked.
at 16:53 on February 28th, 2007
The direct link to the video on MSN is http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=E86BDC63-A0C1-4AEF-926E-0D39AA8F66E9&f=msnhome&fg=copy
at 20:54 on February 28th, 2007
wow - AWESOME video! so are you as crazy as your bro? i'm guessing yes since you started this site ;-)
so can you and will you seek damages? i wish i could say i was shocked at such practices
at 15:38 on March 1st, 2007
And MS ruthlessly pursues so-called pirates in the name of "copyright protection".
Perhaps the MS campus could do with a visit from a certian giant robo-arachnoid.
MechaSpider: stamping out copyright hypocracy with eight big feet!
at 16:24 on March 1st, 2007
What does your creative commons licence say about others using the clip?